Matthew Pearson L'05

Adjunct Professor of Law

Education

Mr. Pearson received a J.D. in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology in 1999. As a graduate student at Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, he studied the three-dimensional molecular structures of proteins using x-ray crystallography. Mr. Pearson earned B.S. degrees in 1993 in biochemistry and chemistry from Michigan State University.

Mr. Pearson served for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.